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Robotic Skin Lights Up When Touched
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have designed a super-thin flexible skin that lights up when touched. 'Thinner than a sheet of paper, the skin is made from layers of plastic and a pressure-sensitive rubber. A conductive silver ink, organic LEDs, and thin-film transistors made from semiconductor-enriched carbon nanotubes are sandwiched between the layers. Applying pressure sends a signal through the rubber that ultimately turns on the LEDs, which light up in red, green, yellow or blue. Instead of using the material to create bodysuits for Burning Man or other illuminated party tricks, scientists suggest that it might be used for smart wallpapers, health-monitoring devices, or in robotics. The type of interactive pressure sensor developed by the Berkeley scientists could also be useful in artificial skin for prosthetic limbs'"
Oooh baby you're making my queries hard!
Only if you like extremely low-res images on your walls.
I'm still waiting for 4x8' sheets of electronic wallpaper with decent resolution and at least 15-bit of RGB/CYMK colors.
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" Instead of using the material to create bodysuits for Burning Man or other illuminated party tricks, scientists suggest that it might be used for smart wallpapers, health-monitoring devices, or in robotics" "many respectable physicists wouldn't stand for that sort of thing, "partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
...when we created Cylons, we would have started with the AI.
Pr0n. You can bet the perv industry is always interesting in anything containing the description of "robotic", "skin", and "Lights up when touched".
Can it also prevent STDs?
when the Borg Queen transplanted some of her skin onto Data (-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_HSYB3EPNk)
Have gnu, will travel.
Please. This is a material, and is no more robotic than rubber, which you can also cover a robot with.
Masamune Shirow pretty much described this mechanism in how the artificial skin of the cyberized humans worked in his manga.
we CAN fuck it! AND it lights up!
fuck yeah, the future is gonna be sick awesome. and sticky.
The Fleshlight will now come in a new Fleshlightlight version! And if it's too heavy, they're also planning a lighter version called the Fleshlightlightlite.
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if your room lights up like a strobe light during periods of intense and furious masturbation, could this be a masturbation cessation tool?
seems like a boring app. Bill Gates is offering $1m for a new an improved condom ...
My phone can do this already.
Instead of smartphones, we could have smartwrists and literal palm pilots.
...WANT.
Disinfect the GNU General Public Virus!
... illuminated nipples
Hmmm... sounds like I've read about this somewhere....
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